If these feelings be disregarded, the complaint increases, and the patient becomes incapable of making water without first lying down, or pushing up a swelling which seems to stop the discharge of urine; and if the disease continues to increase, the womb is actually forced out of the parts, and takes on the form of a bulky substance hanging down between the thighs. This extreme degree of the complaint can seldom happen, excepting in women who have had a great many children, but the less degrees of it occur occasionally in very young unmarried women. The causes of descent of the womb ought to be known to every woman, as many of them may be avoided. Every disease which induces weakness of the habit in general, or of the passage leading to the womb, in particular, must lay the foundation for the complaint. Frequent miscarriages, improper treatment during labour, too early or violent exercise after delivery, are in married women, the most frequent circumstances by which falling down of the womb is produced. In the unmarried, it is apt to take place in consequence of violent exercise, as in dancing, riding, &c., while out of order, a fact that ought to be impressed on the mind of every young woman. In the treatment of this complaint, the means must be adapted to the degree of its violence. When the descent is inconsiderable, and the case is of recent date, the daily use of the cold bath, invigorating diet, very moderate exercise, and the injection of any mild astringent liquor into the passage, evening and morning, will probably prove successful. But should the disease be in a great degree or of long standing, a course of tonics, with the frequent use of astringent injections, as a strong solution of alum in water, or decoction of red oak bark, must be added to the above means. Dr. Leak advises, that after the parts are reduced, the intention of contracting the relaxed vagina so as to prevent its future descent, may be effected by the frequent use of the following astringent injection. Take of alum, and white vitriol, each, one drachm, boiling water, one pound, mix and filter through paper. Inject it into the vagina, milk warm, with a womb syringe. At the same time endeavour to strengthen the whole bodily system by nourishing diet, and tonic medicines.